Darkness Get Behind Me
Words and Music c2021 Melanie E Broussard
CHORUS
Who o o a oh
Who o o a oh
Darkness get behind me.

Verses 
Riding with the wind at sunrise
Chasing the new dawn
Darkness get behind me

This is the day I will find my peace
Turn my sword into a ploughshare
Darkness get behind me

CHORUS

I will stand in the warmth of the new sun
Burning away the sorrow and pain
Darkness get behind me

I will bend the light through my prism
New eyes, to see new ways
Darkness get behind me.

CHORUS

CHORUS and fade

Darkness Get Behind Me

SHINE

Words and Music c 2022
Melanie E Broussard

Point your flashlight up at the sky
On a starry, starry night
Look at that star winking back at you
There you will find your light.   

Open your heart and let love in
I promise you will see
That light will shine from within
So very brightly.

Go ahead and dream
You are brave enough, brave enough
To shine.
Brave enough to shine.

Standing there at the crossroads   
Wondering which way to go.
How many times can you ask yourself
Before you are gonna know?

Life is not one singe path
Tied up neatly with a bow
Shine your light , blaze your own trail
So that others may follow.

Go ahead and dream
You are brave enough, brave enough
To shine.
Brave enough to shine

Look at that star winking back at you
You’re gonna shine that light
I just know it’s true
Be brave, oh you gotta be brave
Life ain’t just one single path 
Tied up in a bow, oh no
Shine that light and  blaze your own trail 
And one day we can follow.

Go ahead and dream
You are brave enough, brave enough
To shine
Brave enough to shine.

SHINE-2022

RISE UP
Words and Music ©2022 by Melanie E Broussard

Dmaj 7, 			Gmaj7
Lying on your back staring into space
Dmaj7    		         Gmaj7
Tears streaming down your face
Dmaj7               Gmaj7
Friend I’m tellin’ you, things will turn around
Dmaj7                                  Gmaj7
Soon as you lift your head off the ground
D                       Em
Rise up, c’mon Rise up

Sitting on that bench, lookin’ woebegone
So much that life has piled on.
Wish I had magic words to say
Life won’t always be this way.
Rise up, c’mon rise up.

G                      Fm             E
If you don’t try you’ll never know..
G             A7                 D  Em
Just how high you can go..
D  Em,    D  Em,   D     Em.
Rise up, rise up, rise up

BRIDGE
Bm      		C		G
I’m not telling you anything new
Bm	      C            G		 A7
You know what you got to  do
D				  Em
Rise up, c’mon rise up, rise up

The weight of the world crushes a soul
Don’t dig yourself a deeper hole.
You will work it all out in time.
Find a ladder and start that climb.
Rise up, c’mon rise up.

If you don’t try you’ll never know
Just how high… you can go.
Rise up, rise up, rise up.

RISE UP

Words and Music c 2023 by Melanie E Broussard

Walking into that wayward door
Living in the past
Then the future comes calling so fast

One step forward, two steps back
Won’t get you out of the weeds.
Spinning wheels never succeed.

Pre-Chorus
Living in the present…
is the best gift you can give to yourself.

Chorus
You gotta walk (WALK) in the now..
I didn’t hear you sing a little louder
Walk (WALK) in the now.
Walk in faith, walk in hope
And with love, thank heaven above.

If you don’t mind it don’t matter
So live while you can
Life never goes according to plan.

Romance or road trip
Come out of your shell
Write the stories that time will tell.

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

Walk in The Now

CLIMB THIS MOUNTAIN - 2023

Houston Songwriter's Association "Song of The Month" Award Winner

Another Revolution
Words and Music ©2016,2024 Melanie E Broussard

Verse 1
Whispers seeking ears on the street
Flowing like a river beneath your feet
Listen you can hear them all around
Slithering like a snake on the ground

Verse 2
Rumors grow where whispers appear
Fomenting, the people’s fear.
Lies or truth, doesn’t really matter.
What matters, is the chatter.

PRECHORUS
Isn't this how it always begins
Once again we are here my friends.

CHORUS
Another revolution, the righteous have won.
Another tyrant, his work undone
Another lesson we have failed to learn
We get the fate that we earn.

Verse 3
People take to the streets with passion
Make their wars in the new day’s fashion.
Pitch forks turn to cannon, and then guns.
So many ways to kill each other’s sons.

Verse 4
Battles are won a winner declared
People hide in their homes still scared.
Soldiers decorate each other with medals
Would-be tyrants learn to work the pedals.

PRECHORUS
CHORUS

CHORUS

ANOTHER REVOLUTION

Look Myself In The I
Words and Music 2024 by Melanie E Broussard

Look Myself In The Eye (I)

SHE KNOWS
Words and Music c2024 Melanie E Broussard

She runs away from him every night
But the doors are all closed
Bruises arise despite her flight
Hidden under her clothes

Mr Thunder rolls
Over her immortal soul
Flattened like play-doh
But he will never know

She knows
She knows
She knows
But she can’t tell a soul

Trapped in a corner with no way out
Nowhere left to turn
All she can hear is the sound of his shout
As one more dinner burns

Mr Thunder slaps
Insanity snaps back complete collapse
A gun lets a bullet go
But he will never know

She knows
She knows
She knows
But she can’t tell a soul

SHE KNOWS

Ms Karma
Words and Music c2025
Melanie E Broussard

You broke my heart and left it in pieces on the floor
Stomped on it and said "I don't love you anymore"
You never even tried to explain
You crowned yourself, king of my pain

Chorus
Now Ms Karma will come visit you
And give you a lesson to learn
When you break a heart in two
The Wheel of Karma's gonna turn...
And run right over you boy,
My heart ain't your little toy.

Your day of reckoning will come very soon
Then your heart will sing a brand new tune
Lying there in pieces on the ground
Poor King of Pain,  you're gonna lose that crown

Chorus

Now Ms Karma can be a real bitch sometimes
Don't you know
I'm cheerin' her on..
You go girl go!

MS KARMA

WINGS DON'T MAKE US ANGELS
Words and Music c2025 Melanie E Broussard

A one-legged bird learns to make it
Using wings that fit her like a glove
When she sees a worm she'll take it
Back to the nest to give it up in love
So all will rise above

CHORUS
Wings don't make us angels you know
No matter how hard we try
We must learn to love and lift every soul
That's the day we learn how to fly
Oh yeah, learn how to fly

We want to fly so bad we could taste it
When we fail our tears hit the ground
When we get a chance we waste it
All that pain keeps us earthbound
Time to go up not down

CHORUS

Bridge
Spread your wings and scatter love all around
If ya do, I promise you
Your feet will never touch the ground

CHORUS

Outro
Spread those wings and scatter that love
They'll be rejoicing in heaven up above
We gotta learn, we gotta learn how to fly..
We gotta learn, gotta learn how to fly.

WINGS DONT MAKE US ANGELS

"Then they came for me 
And there was no one left 
To speak out for me"

Martin Niemöller

Silence Is Golden
Words and Music c2025
Melanie E Broussard

Silence is golden
Until the day it’s not
Question the power of the chosen
It might be the only power we’ve got

First they came for those who didn’t
Vote the way they did
Then the old and sick ones too
It’s all been mandated

Then they came for the black and brown
The red and yellow ones too
Shut up and sit back down
Do what we tell you to do…

Silence is golden
Until it is your turn
To follow the arrows set by the chosen
Step in the fire.. 
It’s time for you to burn... it's your turn.

There’s people in the street 
Marching to a brand new beat.
Yea it’s good trouble.
Keep it nonviolent
But the message must be sent
Hey it’s good trouble.

Vox populi
Hear the people cry
How the hell did we get here
Look in the mirror..
It's time to face your fear.
Face your fear.

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

Dedicated to the helpers.. they are the light workers indeed.

LIGHT WORK
Words and Music c2025 
Melanie E Broussard

V1
Waves of the river lapping at the door
In the darkness its hard to believe anymore
The pink of dawn brings flashlights shining
Rescuers arrive in divine timing 

CH 

Many hands make light work they say
Who the hell are they anyway
They’re the ones who make darkness recede
And the light work indeed.


V2
A battered woman arrives at the shelter
Shaking and screaming  God help me tonight
Gentle hands reach out to help her
Out of that darkness into the light

CH

Many hands make light work they say
Who the hell are they anyway
They’re the ones who make darkness recede
And the light work indeed

Solo

Chorus and Fade Out

LIGHT WORK

MORE YESTERDAYS THAN TOMORROWS
Words and Music ©2025
Melanie E Broussard

CHORUS
There’s no more time to beg, steal, or borrow
When you got more yesterdays, than tomorrows.

V1
Perspective is all about where you’re standing
Slam on the brakes, here comes your crash landing
Or you can move
With purpose in the world and your own groove
And then do, what you came here to.

CHORUS

V2
Perspective is all about where you’re standing
When you become a little less demanding
You learn to love, strong and true
And to cherish those who love you.

CHORUS

V3
Perspective is all about where you’re standing
Don’t look now here comes your rebranding
Because you know
It’s gonna be ok, no matter which way you go…

CHORUS

More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows

Words and Music c 2012 Melanie E. Broussard
This song is dedicated to those we have lost along the way.   They flew so high that their wings melted and they have fallen back to the earth.  They never got to touch the sun.

Winner of Houston Songwriter's Association Song of the Month contest in April, 2015.

Icarus

All I Want Is Your Love

Words and Music ©2017 by Melanie E. Broussard
All rights reserved.

Chorus:
All I want is your love, 
All I want is your love, everyday.
Everyday don’t you take it, take it away.

Verse 1
Nighttime in NYC, rain pours down with no mercy.
My step is slow and the night staggers, right through me.
Parting is sweet sorrow for no one.
Without you there is no morning sun, come back baby.

Chorus

Verse 2
Now I’m off to work, through the crowded streets I think of you.
Praying is the only thing I can do, to get me through.
Parting is sweet sorrow for no one.
Without you there is no morning sun, I need you baby.

Chorus
Chorus

All I Want Is Your Love

Calling out around the world...send love across your land.
Words and Music c2017 Melanie E. Broussard

Raise Up Your Hands

Smooth Jazz composition inspired by trip to Bar Harbor Maine

Bar Harbor Bliss

Words and Music c2018 by Melanie E. Broussard

The Ancient Pueblo Indian cultures of the Southwest USA flourished from about 600 AD TO 1300 AD.  They built multi-story buildings and roads.  They made pottery, baskets, and went from hunter-gatherers to farmers.  Droughts forced them away from those amazing structures and they migrated find water elsewhere.  This song tells the beginning, the middle, and the end using some of their legends of creation and what we have learned from studies done at the pueblo sites.  Hope that you enjoy this look at these amazing people.

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ANGELS ARISE
Words and Music ©2019 by Melanie E Broussard

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